Isn't mass deployment automatically doomed?
I imagine the pilot schemes grabbed all the available ex-policemen and ex-customs officers in the area, who are graduates of criminology courses, have practical experience of undercover questioning, know the use and limitations of observation and that terrorists are rare. They know the public resentment of too many false positives and mostly pull in drug mules and gun toters. This is not new and just an extension of existing procedures.
What's new is trying to make this a scaled-up, nationwide deployment. How many talented, ex-policemen do you think are left? A bunch of min wage hacks, as you say. In the same way that only the talented should be allowed near a microphone, only the talented should be allowed to observe and detain. Therefore, isn't the TSA automatically creating a scaled-up, nationwide disaster that can't be fixed? Isn't this a doomed idea from the start?
Matthew Greet
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